Florian Weimer wrote: > * Cem F. Karan: > >> The ELF idea sounds interesting, but what about other binary >> containers, e.g. mach-o? > > I don't know anything about mach-o, sorry. Well, I know that some of > the files share their magic number with Java class files, but that's > it. > >> That said, I for one would find it *highly* amusing if gcc/clang added >> a switch to embed the complete project into the binary (or even a git >> bundle, so you can do a pull from an executable).
It's been an amusing discussion, but embedding source code into binaries has absolutely nothing to do with the email subject: AGPL, whose sticking point is when software is used across a network. I.e., the end user never gets their hands on any binaries, they only interact with a networked service. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
